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Governor Schwarzenegger applauds energy-saving efforts
Indian Well City Hall INDIAN WELLS, CA, JANUARY
14, 2009 — Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announced that Indian Wells, California,
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“It is initiatives like these that have made California a world leader in energy efficiency,”
said Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. “I applaud the City of Indian Wells and the University of California, Davis
for promoting the kinds of energy-efficiency measures that California needs to meet our aggressive goal of
33-percent renewable energy by 2020.”
Indian Wells meeting room
All circular recessed lighting in the buildings was converted to the Cree LR6 LED light, reducing electricity consumption by 80 percent. The City of Indian Wells plans to evaluate LED lighting for other municipal lighting applications to further increase its energy savings.
“The City of Indian Wells takes being green seriously,” said Mayor Larry Spicer. “We are known worldwide for our extraordinary landscape and pristine environment, and we make stewardship of these resources a top priority. The recessed LED lighting we have installed throughout our municipal buildings cuts our energy consumption for those lights by 80 percent and is targeted to last for 12 to 25 years, significantly reducing the time and money we spend changing and tossing away bulbs.”
“We collaborated with Southern California Edison for these initial LED lighting installations,” noted Greg Johnson, Indian Wells city manager. “They gave us a directive to save energy. We conducted an initial evaluation of many different efficient lighting solutions, and the Cree LR6 LED recessed light was far superior to the others.”
About LED City The LED City is an expanding community of government and industry parties working to evaluate, deploy and promote LED lighting technology across the full range of municipal infrastructure to:
* Save energy * Protect the environment * Reduce maintenance costs * Provide better light quality for improved visibility and safety.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, 22 percent of electricity used in the U.S. powers lighting. In a world with soaring energy prices based on the availability and control of fossil fuels, and with growing concern about sustainability of the environment, a revolution in lighting is long overdue.
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New Manhattan office tower demonstrates how to cut energy usage dramatically with advanced lighting system.
As the free flow of cash slows for corporate America and the call for green corporate behavior rises, a new
Manhattan office tower stands as a stellar example of how companies can build smart to save both money and
energy.
To reduce America’s appetite for energy consumption, it makes sense to attack the biggest sources of the problem first. With office buildings and other commercial structures — all ravenous users of electricity — the place to start is the lighting. Go into any office building and, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (the independent statistical and analytical agency within the U.S. Department of Energy), it’s lighting that accounts for the largest source of electricity usage, more than HVAC or office equipment. The federal agency says lighting alone accounts for 44 percent of the typical office building’s electricity consumption (and about 56 percent for educational buildings). But anyone who encounters The New York Times Building, a dazzling 52-story Renzo Piano design in Manhattan, will find this formula turned on its head. Ingenuity and the Times Company’s commitment to sustainability have delivered stunning results in lighting energy efficiency. At the beginning of the project, after examining the lighting options on the market, the Times Company’s building team began to ask questions and conduct research on how lighting could be accomplished more efficiently. This research led to the Building Technologies Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where, after much discussion, the Times Company began to pursue a dynamic lighting system that would allow departments to set their own light levels and would allow artificial light to be used as a supplement to daylight. In so doing, the team constructed a replica of the southwest corner of the new building and conducted rigorous testing of competing technologies and products to decide which would best meet the building’s lighting needs. Ultimately, the Times Company selected Quantum total light management, designed and manufactured by Lutron Electronics Co., Inc., to control and manage the lighting for its new headquarters. “We designed our building to use 1.28 watts per square foot of lighting power. With Quantum, it’s using only 0.38 — that’s 70 percent less,” says Glenn Hughes, director of construction for The New York Times Company during the design, installation and commissioning of The New York Times Building. “The energy savings is stunning.”
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joined the LED City® initiative, an international program that promotes
the deployment of energy-efficient LED lighting. The city has converted much of the lighting in City Hall, the
Emergency Operations Center and the Public Works Maintenance Facility to LED
lighting. Indian Wells is home to several world-class resorts and is internationally recognized for hosting
high-profile golf and tennis events. 
